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I just searched for it and apparently, Moto pushed this app to some of it's devices via a OTA update. It's ironic because Motorola phones [atleast the midrange ones] have a relatively bloat free reputation.

I use RedReader sporadically for browsing Reddit. I like it's compact UI style and customizability. Even when I had proper paid Boost for Reddit back in the day, somehow, the UI of RedReader made it more intuitive for me to use it.

I think one can technically use Boost still via patching it, but it's a grey area and not worth going after when RedReader exists.

Either case, the official Reddit app has to be purposefully coded to be as unoptimized and useless as possible. The bloat, the wasted white space; it all stands testament to the travesty that is modern software design.

The site does seem to have multiple long form articles posted from around the world; so it makes for good read in case someone is interested in world politics/topics of such nature. Plus, it didn't show up any kind of paywall or any such modern nuisance, which was a positive surprise.

India now has the largest population even though the latest official census data hasn't been done. Either case, unlike China, which has its own local variants of global giants; India usually doesn't. So of course it will be represented in correlation with its growing internet population.

I think there used to be subreddits as well like indianpeoplequora and one dedicated to LinkedIn as well for Indians. Both were fun and frolic usually. The former died out since Quora became a nuthouse in general and most folks abandoned it.

I looked up the original post and it gets worse.

Ideally judiciary should change

What the heck does Judiciary have to do with girls? I think I have an inkling what he wants to say (Indian law in some cases favors the female sex more but that's because conditions forced lawmakers to come up with that way; in some rural areas the plight of females was quite bad and male dominance so much that law had to be slightly biased to provide everyone equality). In some cases, it leads to woman misusing the laws to their own ends (often seen in urban areas) and this guy wants to change the equations.

Eithercase, this is only what I think he might have had in mind because his statements make nothing clear at all. But then, I visited his company page even and the crypto currency laced language dongles my mind.

But in the vast seas of phones, Lineage OS still supports a very small subset. Major players like Google or Samsung are covered but a LOT are skipped.

If one's phone supports Lineage OS, well and good but it's not a fix all

I think even some Chinese OEMs throttle somewhat post 80% (and/or give user the option to limit charging upto that point only). I have a spare entry level Samsung phone. It supports 25 W charging though it gets very slow post 80%. It's not a big deal because the battery capacity is good and with an efficient chipset and 60Hz display, it does way better than my main Realme phone which I need to charge almost twice daily.

For a minute, I thought I was in !fuckcars@lemmy.world community.

The LDAC and aptX codecs do support higher bitrates provided both phone and Bluetooth model earbuds support it. Of course, that's not my primary concern. I can hardly hear the difference, even with a proper set of wired IEMs.

That's why I didn't mention all the anticipation over Spotify Hi-Fi which many folks have been waiting for eons.A look at their Forums/Community section and one can see lots of folks giving ideas/venting frustration over lost/non-introduced features that can massively improve usage. Take the queue for example. One presses back and Spotify loops back to the first song BEFORE the queue, no matter how many songs where in there. Other streaming services don't behave in this manner, neither do local music players. Spotify could either tweak it or preferentially, give users the customization/flexibility option.

Of course, I had my fair share of criticism of YT Music as well when I used it from no proper third party clients to a weak Wear OS app to no custom cover images [they have fixed that now which shows that competition is catching up as well].

I am on Boost. It's a one time purchase for Android Atleast. The dev is same behind Boost for Reddit(now deprecated) and it implements a similar UI as the previous Reddit Client.

Of course, as you said, there are many FOSS solutions as well. I have heard good praise for Voyager and I think Atleast couple of more clients like Jerboa also exist on F-Droid.

The official Reddit app is an exercise in travesty. Any third party client for either Android or iOS in the past was better the official solution is even now. It's slow, bloated and UI looks like it's designed for toddlers in mind.